Improvement in dress-shields



B. M. HQTGHKISS. muss SHIELD.

No. 108,908. Patented Nov. 1, 1870,

BURRITT M. HO'ICHKISS,

YEAR IN BIA-RUBBER OF NAUGAIUCK, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE GOOD GLOVE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

Letters Patent No. 108,908, dated November 1, 1870.

To all wliom it may concern.-

Be it known that I,

Bunmrcr M.

IMPROVEMENT m DRESS-SHIELDS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

Horonxrss, of

Naugatuck, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented and made a new and useful Improvement in Dress-Shields; and the following is declared to be a correct Shields have heretofore to be inserted within the,

description been made thereof. of India rubber,

dress and beneath the arms,

to prevent perspiration passing into the fabric of the dressand. injuringthe same.

These shields have been made of two pieces of India-rubber cloth, cut in a crescent shape, and sewed together at theedge, 01' else the concave upon the other, by India-rubber In the first-named instance the edges have been folded and cen1ented,one

cement.

perspiration penetrates theneedle-holes; in the second-named instance there is a heav the person, the

cloth, and the fibers of the cloth the two thicknesses of the seam, and, found that perspiration passes, by cap seam in the edge of the shield next cement is liable to separate from the pass through between practically, it is illary attraction,

along the fibers of the cloth from one side to the other, and thus through the seam or double thickness.

My invention is made for rendering the seam thinner and more pliable, faces to without he use of cement, and be mu not so wide, and, at. the same time, t

cloth do not extend through and for bringing the rubber surther at the seam, so that they will adhere ch stronger, and

he fibers of the the seam or join.

I take India-rubber cloth with a thin coating of gum caontchouc on one side, desired crescent shape,

and cut the same out, of the by dies or otherwise.

Let the outline a, represent this shape.

I cut out other pieces of cloth of the same shape,

except that onthe concave edge they only extend to the line b, fig. 1, so that, are put together so as to adhere, there when the two pieces of cloth will be a surface of Indiarubber exposed between the lines a b.

This piece of the shield may be made by either plain muslin or cloth, pressed upon the rubber so as to cover up the surface, except between a b or the applied piece may be a. second piece of rubber cloth rubber being brought together.

, the surfaces of Several thicknesses of the respective pieces of material can be cut out together by stamps or dies and separated, and then the proper pieces laid together; or

the smaller pieces can be laid upon a sheet of rubber cloth-and the cloth subsequently cut out to the shape a by dies or otherwise.

A second piece, forming the other half of the shield, is made in a similarmanuer to the foregoing, and is shown in fig. 2, the rubber surface being left exposed between the lines 0 d.

The pieces of the shield may be cut out by dies from two thicknesses of material laidtogetber, and then one Of the fabrics. cut 1hroughat theline 1) 0rd, and the strip of cloth pulled off so. as to expose the rubber surfaces between a b and c d, and then the halves are to be united, as next described.

These two halves, e f, made as aforesaid, are to be united together by bringing the rubber surfaces between a b and c d in contact, in the manner illustrated in fig. 3, where the fabric is shown of undue thickness, so as to be more distinct.

The surfaces are laid together flatwise, and hence have to be manipulated by hand in bringing the rubber edges properly together.- I prefer to make use of a concave-edged mold, over which to place the shield when joined, and a convex weight, slightly warmed, is employed to press the rubber surfaces together and insure their adhering, and by the heat to partially cure.

the'India rubber, thus rendering the joint or seamof the most durable character, and the shield is free from the objections before enumerated.

Figure 4'represents an elevation of the shield, complete and Figure 5 is a vertical section line a: a, fig. 4. I claim as my invention- The India-rubber shield, made with character and in the manner specified.

Dated this 19th day of August, A. D, 1870.

--B. M. HOTOHKISS.

of the same, 'at the a seam of the Witnesses GEO. T. ILNGKNEY, OHAs. H. SMITH. 

